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22 Feb 2012
Last updated at 17:12

Gillie Christou and Maria Ward mislaid their explain for astray dismissal

Two of Baby Peter’s amicable workers are pronounced to have committed a “serious blunder of judgement” during an occurrence that saw him “disappear” for 12 days.

Gillie Christou and Maria Ward are severe an practice judiciary statute that they were sincerely sacked.

Peter Connelly died in 2007 after he was abused. His mom Tracey was jailed in 2009 over his death.

The judiciary listened a Haringey Council workers supposed Connelly’s word that she was looking after a ill uncle.

She claimed she visited a relations at Cricklewood, north-west London, notwithstanding being told to lapse home.

Bruce Carr QC, behaving for a council, their former employer, said: “Peter Connelly left off a radar for 12 days.

“Maria Ward and Gillie Christou supposed a mother’s word that she was looking after a ill uncle in Cricklewood and that was a critical blunder of judgement.”

At-risk register

He added: “One can't contend that a Cricklewood part did in fact lead to a genocide of Peter Connelly but one can contend it was a missed opportunity.”

Ms Ward and Mrs Christou are seeking to overturn a 2010 Watford practice judiciary statute that they were sincerely sacked by Haringey Council.

Peter was 17 months aged when he died on Aug 3 2007.

He was found passed in a blood-stained cot with some-more than 50 injuries, notwithstanding being on a at-risk register and receiving 60 visits from amicable workers, military and health professionals over 8 months.

Peter Connelly died in Aug 2007 at a age of 17 months after being subjected to postulated abuse

His mom Tracey Connelly was jailed in 2009 after revelation causing or permitting his death.

Her beloved Steven Barker and their lodger, Jason Owens, were found guilty at a Old Bailey of a same charge.

Ms Ward was Peter’s nominated amicable workman at Haringey Council from Feb 2007 until his genocide and Mrs Christou was her group manager.

The span were sacked after an review that detected there was a duration in mid-2007 when they did not know where a child was.

Ms Ward was also found to have unsuccessful to accommodate a requirement to see him at slightest once a fortnight.

In May 2010, a General Social Care Council disciplinary cabinet dangling Ms Ward for dual months and Mrs Christou for 4 months – on tip of a 16-month halt cessation forward of a conference – for their bungle in a case.

They certified unwell to safeguard Peter was visited frequently enough, not gripping adequate annals and losing hit with him for a time.

22 Feb 2012
Last updated at 02:32

By Dominic Hughes
Health correspondent, BBC News

Women are some-more expected to die from a heart conflict

Fewer women than organisation pang from a heart conflict seem to knowledge chest pain symptoms, according to a investigate of some-more than one million people in a US.

Overall organisation have significantly some-more heart attacks, but underneath a age of 55 women are some-more expected to die from one.

Without displaying a classical chest pain symptoms of a heart attack, researchers contend some women might not be removing a right kind of treatment.

The study looked at patients seen at some-more than 1,000 hospitals.

The investigate found that among younger women – those aged underneath 55 – a differences in symptoms with organisation of a same age were striking.

Overall, 42% of women did not knowledge chest pain compared with 30% of men.

And once admitted, a investigate found that women were some-more expected to die than organisation from a same age group.

Some 14% of women died compared with 10% of men.

The investigate adds to justification that women can knowledge utterly opposite symptoms to men.

Time is critical

The authors, essay in a Journal of a American Medical Association, said: “Optimal approval and timely government of myocardial infarction (MI), generally for shortening studious check in seeking strident medical care, is critical.

“The participation of chest pain/discomfort is a hallmark sign of MI.

“Patients but chest pain/discomfort tend to benefaction later, are treated reduction aggressively, and have roughly twice a short-term mankind compared with those presenting with some-more standard symptoms of MI.”

Heart attacks among younger women are comparatively rare.

In fact a normal age of women certified to sanatorium in a investigate was 74, compared with 67 for men.

Cathy Ross, comparison cardiac helper at a British Heart Foundation, pronounced a heart conflict did not indispensably meant thespian and agonizing chest pains.

“Symptoms vary; for some a pain is serious and nonetheless others might feel zero some-more than a amiable annoy or heaviness. The many critical thing to remember is if you consider you’re carrying a heart attack, call 999.

“Younger women might need to mind that recommendation some-more than many since they seem to be reduction expected to have chest pains.

“Their symptoms can be ignored by fresh medical staff since heart attacks in immature women are rare.

“More investigate will hopefully brand because there are such variations in a approach heart illness affects organisation and women.”

Dr Kevin F Fox, a consultant cardiologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and vocalization for a Royal College of Physicians, pronounced that altogether a series of heart attacks and compared deaths were falling, but that when immature women had heart attacks a outcomes were not good.

“The paper has shown that women, and in sold younger women, underneath 55 years of age, mostly do not have a standard presenting sign of chest pain compared to organisation when they have a heart attack.

“Although heart conflict presence is improving overall, doctors, health caring professionals and a open need to be wakeful and observant that women can have a heart conflict but a standard chest pain that we all consider of as a categorical symptom.”

The US researchers report a formula of their work as “provocative” and titillate serve study, but contend that for a impulse there should be no change in a open health summary that chest pain and annoy could be symptoms of a heart attack.

22 Feb 2012
Last updated at 15:14

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David Cameron produces Labour lecture on NHS check during PMQs

Labour personality Ed Miliband has told David Cameron he risks creation NHS remodel “his check tax” – in loud Commons clashes over a health bill.

Mr Miliband regularly indicted a PM of refusing to listen to medics’ concerns about a argumentative bill.

But Mr Cameron pounded Labour as “rank opportunists” – for job for a announcement of papers on a bill.

He pronounced Labour had refused to tell a identical ask when in energy and were “not fit for government”.

The dual clashed at Prime Minister’s Questions, forward of a Labour-led discuss job for a announcement of a government’s risk comment of a impact of an NHS reorganization in England.

‘Not fit’

The argumentative Health and Social Care Bill has upheld by a Commons stages but has been nice several times by a House of Lords.

Crossbencher Lord Owen is approaching to put down an amendment to a check that would check a thoroughfare by Parliament until after a Freedom of Information statute on a “transition risk register” on 5 and 6 March.

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Labour leader

In a Commons, Mr Cameron pronounced Labour frontbencher Andy Burnham had blocked a announcement of a risk register in Sep 2009 – when he was health secretary.

Mr Cameron pronounced it showed Labour “absolutely suggested as a garland of arrange opportunists, not fit to run antithesis and not fit for government”.

‘Arrogance’

But Mr Miliband indicted a PM of carrying released a “vast majority” of health workers from a “ridiculous summit” on a Health and Social Care Bill on Monday.

Having formerly pronounced he wanted to listen to NHS workers “now he can’t even be in a same room as a doctors and nurses” – suggesting he had “lost a certainty of those who work in a NHS”.

He told a PM “nobody believes him and nobody trusts him on a health service” and claimed a check had turn a “symbol of his arrogance”.

Referring a hugely argumentative process seen as assisting dive a finish of Margaret Thatcher’s care of a Conservative Party, Mr Miliband added: “This will turn his check tax. He should listen to a open and he should dump this bill.”

Lib Dem support

Fifteen Lib Dem MPs are subsidy Labour calls for ministers to tell a Department of Health’s risk comment of a NHS shake-up.

The supervision is appealing opposite a Freedom of Information statute that it should be published in a open interest. The interest is due to be deliberate on 5 and 6 March.

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Labour is now regulating a “opposition day debate” to direct that a supervision “respect” a information commissioner’s statute and tell a report. The opinion is not contracting but would boost vigour on a government.

An early day motion on a same emanate has been sealed by 15 Lib Dem MPs – including Duncan Hames – an help to Energy Secretary Ed Davey.

Mr Burnham told MPs there had been “crucial differences” between a ask whose announcement he had blocked in 2009 – a vital risk register – and a one Labour was now dire a supervision to publish.

He pronounced he had not instituted what he described as a biggest ever top-down re-organisation of a NHS at a time of a biggest ever financial plea – and a information commissioner had not ruled in 2009 that a paper should be published.

Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has pronounced it would be “completely misleading” to tell a register, that was put together before changes were finished to a check and had been dictated as an “internal mechanism”.

Past requests

In a Commons he quoted behind Mr Burnham’s possess difference from 2007, when he was a health minister, following a identical ask for a risk register to be published – when Mr Burnham pronounced that it would “be expected to revoke a fact and application of a contents” that would “inhibit a giveaway and straightforward sell of views about poignant risks”.

Mr Lansley told MPs: “He’s perplexing to advise something should be finished by this supervision that he, as a apportion and afterwards a secretary of state himself, resolutely refused to you, regulating accurately a same arguments that a benefaction supervision has used.”

Mr Burnham steady that it was not a “comparable situation” as it had referred to a opposite document.

The check has also been criticised by several bodies representing medical professionals and Lib Dem activists are scheming an puncture suit for their party’s open discussion subsequent month, propelling a celebration to work towards defeating a bill.

But Mr Cameron pronounced on Wednesday a check would “abolish a bureaucracy that has been holding a NHS back”. He argues remodel is indispensable to understanding with a hurdles of an ageing race and a rising costs of medical treatments and prolonged tenure conditions.

Accusing Labour of hostile changes it had once backed, he said: “You don’t save a NHS by hostile reform, you save a NHS by delivering reform.”